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… about the horse’s qualities relative to the one he had chosen to match it against. Not all of them were honest. When Daniel Defoe visited in the 1720s, he was shocked at the way the nobility and gentry were ‘busy in what is called the sharping … ‘circumvent one another and […] pick one another’s pockets […] to the indelible shame of men of rank and quality’. 6 6 . Daniel Defoe, A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain 3rd Edition (London: Osborn et all, 1742), p.78-9. By 1739 …
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